Example sentences of "and as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A black , beady eye caught the light as it moved on short , powerful legs and toes , and as it crossed the clearing it paused for one brief moment to utter a shrill and prolonged , ‘ Kee … wee … | . ’ |
| 2 | He switched on the refrigeration unit , and as it shivered into life the counter lights came on under the glass . |
| 3 | ‘ And as it turns out , it does n't much matter . |
| 4 | She had never been involved in his business and as it grew , saw considerably less of her husband . |
| 5 | The weight of the conditioner pulls the curls down and as it dries it also helps the curls to separate . |
| 6 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 7 | And as it takes up little room , tie is also a good idea , ‘ just in case ’ . |
| 8 | No that was that was the Friday and as it says th well I do n't know if it says there or not , but they said what would happen , they 'd think about it over the weekend and they 'd contact me the Monday afternoon erm to make a final decision . |
| 9 | Because you can never go back to yesterday , if you came in last year or five years ago , ten years ago or longer , some of you have been in the truth for many , many years and it is nearer now than it ever was when you first came along and joined Jehovah 's people and as it says the night is well along and if any of us have ever worked on the night shift , I think we 're all well aware are n't we that when the night is well along and |
| 10 | " And as it happens opium . |
| 11 | And as it happens , I did n't walk . |
| 12 | It is for instance a continuous and powerfully effective factor in the change of lexical meaning ; and as it happens , we have touched on a syntactic case in this very chapter , in the development of fixed relative order for classes of adjectives in prenominal position ( cf. , too , the emergence of " characteristic " and " occasion " values for prenominals and postnominals , respectively ) . |
| 13 | And it shows , in Beerbohm and Bowra and as it survives today , how inevitable it was that Pound should have abandoned England and the English just when he did . |
| 14 | One night he put a Belgian chocolate inside her and as it melted he licked away the cream . |
| 15 | Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song . |
| 16 | And as it looked like Sasser had told Hurley something about me , Control passed the word that I had handled some contract work for the Defense Department in the past , just minor stuff , but that it was all finished now . |
| 17 | When attacking , it protrudes its long snout , and as it pushes it against the flesh of its enemy it fires a small , venom-carrying harpoon — a hollow dart formed from a tooth — that can kill a human being within a few hours . |
| 18 | And as it becomes easier and cheaper to span the globe , knowledge of local wrinkles is becoming more important , not less . |
| 19 | However , the evidence from Pittsburgh indicates that the community group , instead of acting as an oppositional force , has been brought more emphatically within the institutional orbit , both through the mechanisms for consultation and as it becomes formally integrated into local policy making . |
| 20 | Their engine fired and as it droned down the hill , toots of thanks echoed round the canyon . |
| 21 | This is an area where a diesel car scores very well and as it uses less fuel than a petrol car , it emits less noxious gas . |
| 22 | It takes a little of the Continental Plate with it , producing a rare and exotic melt of rock ; and as it goes down and melts , and as its volume changes and its physical chemistry alters , so this deep-diving mess of ocean rock contorts and winces , and deep-seated earthquakes and violent eruptions occur . |
| 23 | Ever since Cherith , I 've vowed that I 'd just take love as it comes — and as it goes . |
| 24 | up like that and as it goes up it gets thinner |
| 25 | And as the particles go round and round this racetrack , it 's a bit like a car with its headlights going on , and as it goes faster and faster the car headlights more or less catch up with each other , you see what I 'm saying . |
| 26 | the argument was continuous and as it developed both sides changed their positions . |
| 27 | A stream of urine splashed into the first glass , and as it filled Estelle guided the stream to the next glass as if she were holding a hose pipe . |
| 28 | If it detects an object , it improves definition by increasing the pulse rate to 25–50 per second , and as it swoops for the kill , the rate reaches an incredible 200 per second . |
| 29 | This is a four-week period in which racing should not be undertaken seriously , but during this time training can become harder and as it does so , it must be directed towards the goal , It may be necessary to allow more time between hard sessions and longer recovery times during the session , until your anti-stress systems get back to normal . |
| 30 | The mobile phase flows continuously over the stationary phase and as it does so separates the components on the stationary phase . |